Furniture-caster.



Patented m l8, I899. A. a. mss..

FURNITURE EASTER.

(Applic 12, 1898.)

ltion filed Die.

(It Iadol.)

' UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT B. DISS, OF NEW YORK, Y.

FU'RNlTU RE-CASTER srncrrrcAcrrolv forming part of Letters Patent No. 629,188, dated July is, 1899.

Application filed Decemher12, 1898. 'Serial No. 698,948. (No model.) v I To all whom, it may concern: 7

Be it known that L'Amannr B. DISS, a citi zen of the United States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, in the city and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Furniture-Casters, of which intohalf-cylinders and provided, with ears upon the corners of the lower ends, which are passed through the washer or plate and are turned up flush with the under surface of such plate, the lower ends of the half-socket resting upon the upper surface of the washerplate, whereby the parts are firmlyconnected together, and very little labor is involved in this construction. r

' In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of the caster complete. Fig. 2 is a plan,

' and Fig. 3 is an inverted plan, of the socket and its plate.

' geous to spread the upper end of the pintleto' spring-socket. The plate D has a central is composed. Fig. 5'isa section, and Fig. 6

an inverted plan, of the plate of the socketprevious to the parts being put together.

The roller A, jaw 15, and pintle O are of any desired character, and it is advanta form a head/by which it is 'held within the opening 2 in it. adapted to pass the pintle,

and the metal of the plate is pressed up at 1 opposite sides, as shown at 3, so as to form 1 recesses on the under side of the plate. The

two halves E, of sheet metal, are formed with ears or projections at at the lower ends, and

these halves areto be pressed up by suitable dies, so as to form half-cylinders, and when set together they form the cylindrical. socket for the pintle; and the ears 4 come together at'opposite' sides of the opening 2 in the plate D, and the ears are received into the recesses '3. By suitable dies or tools these ears are turned outwardly and the parts firmly pressed Fig. 4' represents the two blanks out of which the cylinder of the socket socket to the plateD, and the lower edges of the halves 2 rest upon the upper surface of together, so as to connect the halves E of the, v

the plate D. The ears 4 pass into the recesses -on the lower side of the plate D and are firmly held in place bythe ears being turned 7 outward and pressed to place by suitable dies.

It is advantageous to make the upper ends of the halves E narrower tha'nthe lower portions of the halves, so that when set together thereare slots, as at 5, that allow the socket to be slightly bent inward or contracted as such socket is driven into the hole bored in connected, and it is advantageous to have points 6 upon the plateD, which are'bent upward by suitable dies, so that the undersur- I face of the plate D is convex, and the points 6 penetrate the wood of the leg or otherarti- I cle as the socket is driven into position, and it is advantageous toprovide a shoulder 7 upon the pintle C,up'on which the plate D rests, so that the parts turn freely when putv together, and asthe pintle C is forced into; thesocket formed by the halves E after the same has beenapplied to the leg orfurniture the metal of the socket is sprung slightly by the enlargement or head of the pintle, so that:

thelpintleand castermill-able drop out when, the article 'of furniture is raised,- because the enlargement ofthe pintle passes v beyond the end of the socket.

.It will be apparent that the'cylindrical' socket having the downward projections rests at'itslower end upon the plate .and that the V projecting ears that are turned-outwardly 'into'the' recesses of the plate [firmly connect the socket and the plate regardless of the socket. r I claim as my invention-- 1 v 1. The combine. fonwith the caster, roller: 1 i jaws and pintle, of a plate havingian opening through it for the pintleandrecesses ad-- joining such opening, a, socket formed of two pieces of sheetmetal, half-cylindrical in .form, and having earsat the lowercorners j .IOO

passing intotherecesses ofthe plate and turned outward, substantiallyas set forth.

2. The combination with'the caster-pintle,

jaws and roller, of a plate having a hole th'roughit correspondingin diameter to the V '9? number of pieces made use of in forming the pintle and with adjacent recesses, a sheet- Signed by me this 8th clay of Decemhet, metal socket bent up am1 cylindrical and 1898. havlngdownwardly-progectlng ears,the lower ALBERT R DIES end of the socket resting upon the'top of the 5 plate and the ears being turned outwardly \Vitnessesi I into the recesses of the plate to permanently GEO. T. PINCKNEY, connect the parts substantiallly as set forth. E. E. POI-ILI'J. 

